More people are working on shifts, including nights. While work is work, its constantly-changing schedule does a lot of harm to the body, including negative impact on cognition: it’s as if the workers are always jet-lagged.
Israeli researchers studied 308,000 people whose vitamin D blood levels had been recorded. They found no association of low vitamin D with an initial diagnosis of asthma. But inadequate levels were significantly associated with the number and severity of attac…
More people are choosing bariatric surgery in an effort to control obesity and reduce the chances of developing serious disorders including diabetes and certain types of cancers. While the procedure primarily decreases the amount of food intake, it also has an…
